> Thanks. For some reason, this is not working like the C code > is ( my desired result) > > C: > echo | cvt > adc def > hij > > Perl: > echo "abc^Hdef\nhij" | perl -pe 'tr/\040-\176\n/ /c' > abc^Hdef > hij
> perl -pi.bak -e 'tr/\040-\176\n/ /c' file > That'll change all characters that are NON between 0040 and 0176 and \n > into spaces. woops, never mind. It works fine. I stuck a real backpsace char in there by unsetting my stty setttings and it worked. echo "aaa\b^Hb\na" | test.pl aaa b a THANKS JEFF AND ALL WHO HELPED!!!!!!!!!!! Jim -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
